So many things demand our attention in this fast-paced age that we are tempted to just passively watch rather than expend energy to actively observe, not just to see but to truly behold. John Keats confronted the temptation to this passivity in 1819 when he composed “Ode to a Nightingale,” which would become one of…
Something for Summer Reading: ‘Mr. Midshipman Easy’ by Captain Frederick Marryat
Most readers appreciate a thoroughly entertaining read, and such books can especially delight during the long, hot days of summer. If, as you’re sitting on the beach or near a pool or just in your backyard, you come across a nautical page-turner that includes a little scintillating satire, fantastic farce, and daredevil heroes too dashing…
John Keats: How His Poems of Death and Lost Youth Are Resonating During COVID-19
In John Keats’s poems, death crops up 100 times more than the future, a word that appears just once in the entirety of his work. This might seem appropriate on the 200th anniversary of the death of Keats, who was popularly viewed as the young Romantic poet “half in love with easeful death.” Death…
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